Thursday, 20 October 2011

Zombies, Leeds comic con,the Avengers & DC sales in news and rumors

The Leeds art festival Thought Bubble will run from the 14th to the 20th November this year, it culminates in a comic con that has been extended to run two days 19th / 20th. The comic con will be held at Saviles as in previous years, tickets are £10 for a day pass Sat or Sun £18 for a two day past. Guests include Tim Sale, Adam Hughes Jeff Lemire and Ben Templeton-Smith, plus many, many more.

I have attended the last two conventions and had a fantastic time if you get the chance check it out.

The new series of The walking dead airs in the UK on Friday 21st 10:00 on the FX channel, if you cannot wait that long for a zombie fix check out the web episodes on the FX website. http://fxuk.com/shows/the-walking-dead/about

More photos have surfaced from the set of the new Superman movie, and appear to show Russell Crowe in his Jor-El outfit; Russell is playing the farther of Kal-El (Superman) a role played in previous films by Marlon Brando.

DC Comics New 52 initiative has produced sales of 5 million comic books in just six weeks. DC released 52 brand new or relaunched comics all of which started at issue #1, this was part of a bold staturgie to revitalise comic sales by attracting new or lapsed comics fans back to the heroes of the DC Universe.

In a press release, DC claimed the figure represents the company's biggest sales in more than 20 years.As well as the 5 million comic figure, DC confirmed sale numbers for some of their top titles:

Normal sales of top titels is around 100,000 copies, so the New 52 line isat the momment see to be a success. Sales figures will be monitored over the ongoing month as it has been rmmored that all the books have arouind 12 issues to prove themselfes or they could be canccelled.

On top of this all the new 52 books are also available digitally, on the same day the print versions go on sale in comics shops. Digital sales have not yet been released by DC, but it is belived that digital sales have been better than were expected. Given that the digital comic can be read on all the main platforms, Ipad, Iphone, Android phones and PC and laptops, it is a fair asumption that digital sales will go up I myself am reading Superman & Demon Knights digitaly.